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15” Thin and Lightweight 2-in-1 HD Touchscreen Laptop

By carefully trimming every last gram, we’ve made the 15.6-inch VivoBook Flip R518 weigh a super-light 4.8 pounds, with a profile measuring just .8 inches thin. All this makes the R518 not only a great choice for home or office use, but also a perfect take-anywhere device that allows you to work and relax anytime, anywhere.

What’s In the Box

Solid engineering

The Asus R518’s robust and remarkable 360-degree, multi-gear metal hinge gives you the freedom to organize your life the way you want. Do serious work in laptop mode. Flip into tent mode to share or discuss stuff with your colleagues. Create your own personal movie theater in an instant with stand mode.

Get Connected with USB Type-C

The new, reversible USB Type-C port makes connecting devices so much easier Fast USB 3.1 Gen 1 (up to 5Gbit/s) lets you transfer a 2GB movie to a USB drive in under 2 seconds! For maximum convenience and compatibility, VivoBook Flip R518 also has standard USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports, plus a HDMI port for connecting various peripherals and devices.

Immersive Audiovisuals

ASUS VivoBook Flip R518 immerses you in crystal-clear visuals and pitch-perfect sound. Its Full HD display gives you wide viewing angles so your images never look washed out or lacking in contrast, even when viewing them from off-center. This makes the R518 perfect for sharing screen contents with a group of people, whatever mode it is in.

Instant Response

ASUS VivoBook Flip R518 is designed to respond instantly to your every touch. We’ve doubled the touch sensitivity, so even the slightest movement of your fingertips is detected, and it only needs the lightest of touches to work perfectly. In fact, it’s so good that it reacts accurately even to a child’s small fingertips!

Typing Comfort

Just because the 15.6-inch Flip R518 is incredibly slim, light and compact doesn’t mean you have to suffer typing on it. We’ve engineered a superb keyboard with full-size keys, and with just the right amount of key travel to make it supremely comfortable to use.

A Touchpad a Step Above the Rest

The large touchpad on ASUS VivoBook Flip R518 makes it effortless to navigate your way around Windows. We’ve made it extra-sensitive for instant response, and to avoid those annoying jumps when your palm hits the touchpad, we use an exclusive smart algorithm that recognizes the difference between fingers and a palm. It’s a perfect balance between sensitivity and usability.

Product description

Style:Core i5-7200U
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Capacity:15.6 inch
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Configuration:256GB SSD

By carefully trimming every last gram, we've made the 15.6-inch VivoBook Flip R518 weigh a super-light 4.8 pounds, with a profile measuring just .8 inches thin. All this makes the R518 not only a great choice for home or office use, but also a perfect take-anywhere device that allows you to work and relax anytime, anywhere.

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Date First Available

October 24, 2017

Warranty & Support

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Build quality and quirks: The bottom and sides of the laptop are plastic. The top cover (holding the touchpad and keyboard) is metal and the cover (back of the screen) is metal. In spite of the plastic bottom and sides the machine is very rigid and does not feel cheap to me. I am not a fan of the placement of the power and volume buttons on the left side of the machine - I have accidentally hit these a few times already, but I will learn to live with it. With the exception of volume, there are no media keys... I mean the play/pause, next track, previous track, etc. buttons that you often see on laptops. There are no physical media buttons and none even with the fn modifier. You can always map your own shortcuts so this is maybe just an inconvenience, but I fail to see the wisdom of not including these.

Accessibility: There are about a dozen screws that must be removed from the bottom of the laptop and then the top cover (not the bottom) can be lifted off, keyboard and all. This will require a thin blade or spudger to detach the plastic clippy bits that hold the cover down and you will surely break one or two, but it is of no real consequence.

Storage expansion: The laptop ships with a 2.5" SATA hard drive. This can (and should) be removed and replaced with an SSD. I replaced this with a Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB SSD and had no problems booting from the new drive. There is also an unpopulated 22 mm by 80 mm (i.e. "2280 size") M.2 slot with M-type keying right next to the hard drive bay. The motherboard has "SSD" written next to this connector so it's purpose is pretty clear. I do not, however, know what interfaces are supported for this slot (i.e. SATA or 2 or 4-lane PCI-E for NVME) and I don't know what effort is required to boot from this device.

Memory expansion: lspci sees 4 RAM banks, with only one of them populated. This would imply that there is room for expansion, but I did not tear down the machine far enough to get at these banks and so I don't know if they all actually exist.

Linux support: As far as core hardware goes this machine has a pretty solid Intel-only load out, which is why I bought it (no discrete graphics or exotic wifi, etc.). I installed Debian Stretch without any problems and it booted up first try. Most hardware worked out of the box, including graphics, touchpad & keyboard, integrated sensors like accelerometers, touchscreen controller, media card reader, webcam, and wifi (which is benchmarking substantially faster under Linux than it did in Windows). The only real problem I ran into was with audio. The audio device seems to treat the internal speakers like they are hard-wired to the headphones - they play when headphones are plugged in and they are off when there are no headphones. This is probably just because the PCH is too young for my kernel and driver. There is a chance a distro like Ubuntu would just work out of the box, but I didn't try. I was able to fix the audio by building a new kernel and re-mapping the audio pins through ALSA. I am reporting the fix upstream to ALSA, so maybe this problem will go away on it's own for other owners of this laptop. At this point the only hardware that doesn't work is the fingerprint reader, which I don't care about enough to futz with. The machine is extremely snappy and smooth under Debian. I have not had any hiccups or freezes or other problems.

Defective. The pin page doesn't come up. Called Amazon tech support who walked me through the troubleshooting process like it was my first time looking at a computer. Was really unhelpful and I'm not even sure he was listening. Then, I was referred to ASUS technical support only to connect with another equally inept male technician who insulted me further, and so I'm returning the product after hours online, troubleshooting and dealing with horrible tech reps from amazon and asus. It's a defective pc, the one I received.

I would of gave the laptop 5 stars if you could order it with a SSD drive. Placing an 5400 rpm mechanical drive in a laptop now days is disappointing. I replaced the mechanical drive with a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD which made this laptop much faster. The build of the unit is solid and the display is great. The sound quality is slightly above average for a laptop. No storage for the stylus is also a disappointment. IMO, add the SSD and you will have great laptop.

Book itself is ok, despite the fact that it is heavy as a sin, however, the screen is a complete disaster. The main problem isn't even laughful resolution. The problem is an extremely narrow angle of view, that completely prevents using it as a tablet. You really have to adjust and adjust and adjust it in order to keep the screen, no, not "crystal clear" as advertised. The best you can reach - would be "minimally acceptable".

I am surprised, I bought this book to replace my 3 years old Lenovo Yoga and for the same price I paid for yoga 3 years ago I didn't expect that bad screen to be used.

So, if you plan to use it as a notebook with occasional use as a table - may be. If primary use is table - big no-no, don't repeat my $600 mistake.

This laptop is extremely slow. I let it install all the updates, before using it; after the updates were installed completely, I did a final reboot just to make sure all was well. it took a while to reboot and come back up. Once it came up, it took a while to respond. it doesn't respond well with the track pad. it does fine with the touchscreen. I expected it to be much faster. I have given it a few days and it still responds really slow. I even removed all the software I didn't need, but that didn't seem to help.

My initial impression is that this is a good laptop. I did discover that there's no network port - it's WiFi-only. I'll have to carry a USB network device if I want to put it on the corporate network. Not a big deal, just annoying.

Since different versions are listed, this is the version I got: 15.6-inch Intel Core i5-7200U Processor, 256GB SSD, 8GB DDR4, Windows 10. This version doesn't have a back-lit keyboard, but that's not a problem.

The price is great for a good quality touchscreen laptop.I can't give a full review because I bought it as a gift, but the person I gave it to has had no complaints. Of course, I always wipe and re-install Windows 10 myself, so the operating system and drivers have a fresh install, and there is no bloatware, and to reduce the Microsoft spyware.

Had I known how godawful the ten key is I would not have bought this. There's no dedicated home, end, pgup, or pgdown keys so you have to turn off the number lock to use them. The decimal is also located at the top rather than appropriately at the bottom, and the arrow keys are very slim and easy to miss. I do a lot of work with data and need to be able to move around spreadsheets and databases quickly, but Asus really missed the mark on this feature. For this reason I think I'm going to return it.